From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gdb Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <84bpdwcjyg.fsf@gmail.com> <83zl1gvtml.fsf@gnu.org> <1270610656.2491.17.camel@abs1> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270618738 3519 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2010 05:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 05:38:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 07 07:38:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzNya-0005aH-UW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:38:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzNyX-0006O1-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NzNvD-00057q-A1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49523 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NzNvC-000573-1u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NzNv8-0004cZ-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42554) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NzNv7-0004cG-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NzNnp-0002QL-S3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:27:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <1270610656.2491.17.camel@abs1> (message from belnac on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:24:16 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72614 Archived-At: > From: belnac > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:24:16 +0000 > > I've been following this particular thread with much interest and would > like to take the opportunity to ask the experts why it is a good idea to > run Emacs under GDB? etc/DEBUG explains that: ** It is a good idea to run Emacs under GDB (or some other suitable debugger) *all the time*. Then, when Emacs crashes, you will be able to debug the live process, not just a core dump. (This is especially important on systems which don't support core files, and instead print just the registers and some stack addresses.) (MS-Windows is one system that does not support core files, btw.)